The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-01-06

long duration.
- FEBRUARY.
s. The employees of the New York, Seventh
avenue, Fourth avenue, Sixth avenue and
Broadway surface roads strike successfully
for reduction of hours.
| MARCH.
g. Brooklyn street car lines all "tied up.n
s. General tie up of the street railroads
Of New York city 1t required ESQ police
men to force car through Grand street,
where great crowd had assembled
G. Five hundred men, Knights of Labor,
employed in the Missouri Pacific railroad
shops at St Louis, quit work at the blowing
of the noon whistle. One thousand other en-
ployes who We're also Knights also struck.
The freight business Of the road is paralyzed
z. Secret meeting held at ST Louis, at
which the passenger engineers, brakemen,
switchmen and flemen Of the Missouri Pa
ciflc system decided to join the freight ham
dlersr and carshop strike. Accordingly none
of them reported for work, and 6,09O miles
OF road idle. Immense freight blockade.
0. Employees of the Troy and Lansingburg
street railroad at Troy, N. Y, struck for
fewer hours of work. Demands granted.
g. Five thousand employees Of the aGouid"
railroad system were discharged on the Mis-
| souri, Pacific.
10. Vice-President H. NJ. Hoxie, OF the
| Missouri Pacific railroad, declines to confer
| with the Knights Of Labor or committee
| from the strikers.
%. Hoxie has conference with Governors
| Marmaduke and Martin at st. Louis.
%. Jay Gould accepted proposal for ar
| bitration. Mr.. Powderly orders the men to
| work -
20. TIE district assemblies K. of L. refuse
| to obey Powderly's order, and instruct the
| Missouri Pacific strikers not to resume work.
| 81. Martin Irols issues general order to
| the Knights to resume work on the Missouri
| Pacific.
| 81. Six hundred and fifty morocco workers
of Wilmington quit work.
81. Strike OF Cohoes spinners ended. About
| 1900 persons affected.
l. The strike on the Gould roads has been
| resumed on account Of tho refusal of the COM
pany to reinstate ell tho strikers.
g. ''Dloody Saturday" at Fort Worth,
| Texas Strikers resist the movement of
trains firing a volley Of Winchester rifles into
| a posse of deputy sheriffs, killing one and
| mortaily woundng two others. The officers
| replied with revolvers killing one striker.
s. Mr.. Powderly formally recalls his order
| to the Missouri Pacific strikers to resume
| work.
O. Deputy sheriffs in East st. Louis fire
| into a crowd, killing seven persons, only one
| of whom was striker:
Il Powderly makes an appeal to Gould for
| the settlement of the southwestern strike.
| Gould replies, jus.ifying his action ard re-
| fusing to grant the request Of the Knights for
| arbitration.
16 A general tie up ordered on the New
| York City Third Avenue Street railway.
16. Martin Irons, the leader in the great
southwestern strike is, with three others, i'll
dicted by the grand grand jury at ST. Louis,
| for tampering with telegraph wires.
49, Widow LaudgraT boycotted in New
York city for employing non-union bakers.
49, The Third avenue street car strikers,
| New York city, wreck car end have a
| short but savage fight with tho police.
49, The great tic up of the New York city
| street railroads is Off, with the exception Of
| tho Third avenue line.
90 Trains arc running without molestation
| on the Gould roads, although tho strikers
| still profess to be confident of ultimate sue
| cess.
| 90. The house committee at Washington
| begins its investigation Of tho strike on the
| Gould roads. 1t was continued for some
time
25. uGar house employees at williamsburg
| N. Y, Oh strike for an increase Of wages.
| 26. Thirty -fivo members of tho New York
Tailors' union indicted by tho grand jury for
boycosting.:
| 81. The striking operatives of the Missouri
! Car company have resumed work. The Bal
| timore street car strike has also come to an
end.
81. The Third avenue street car strikers,
| New York city, put OH free coaches for the
accommodation of persons who would other
wise be compelled to ride in tho cars.
80. Chairman O'Donnell, Secretary Best,
and Graham, Hughes and Downing, of the
Empire Protective association, indicted by
! the grand jury ct New York for ordering the
| tic UP Of tho Third avenue cars.
| MAY.
/. Chicago trades unions demand a uniform
working day of eight hours, without reduc-
| ton Of wages, Tho same demands are made
| in many other cities.
/. Forty thousand men in Chicago go On
| strike for eight hours Strikes for similar
| cause arc general all over the country.
4. An attempt by the Chicago police to dis
perse meeting of Anarchists was followed
| by riot in which a dynamite bomb was
| thrown by the Anarchists among the police,
| killing six and wopnGing si4ty.one
5. Rioters fired Upon and several killed by
| the state militia sc Milwaukee, Wis
5, Mora shooting occurred at Chicago be-
tween tho police and Anarchists, and leading
| rioters were arrested
6. Milwaukee rioters indicted.
0. Tia pianomaaers CT New York have
abandoned their demand for 2 reduction 70
eight hours o day.
| 10. Big strike az Chicago ended.
10. About 1900 girls, employees Of the
| Troy, r. Y, collar and cuff factories, locked
| out by the manufacturers on account Of the
strike Ct the laundry girls at George r. Ide&
| Co.'S establishment.
| Ct. Eight thousand tailors locked out by
tho Boss Taitors' union, New York city.
| JUNE.
O. John Host, convicted of melting to riot,
| was sentenced to Imprisonment a. hard labor
for one year and to pay a fine of $500 at Now
| YorE.
8. The convention Of Knights o. Labor, at
| Cleveland, closed. The differences with the
| trades unions were not satisfactorily adjusted.
4 Female members Of tho families OF the
| striking Chicago railroad men stop trains by
| standing upon the tracks.
s. Fourteen thousand horse car men, Of
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New York, Brooklyn and Long Island City,
| quit work.
6. The Empire Protective association gives
| up the fight against the Third Avenue road.
L. At the meeting of tho Brotherhood of
Telegraphers, at Kansas City, it was decided
| to join the Knights of Labor.
| 25 The Lake Shore switchmcn at Chicago,
| out on strike, became very demonstratiye; .
| train of cars thrown oil tho track
81. Union employees Of fourteen New York
| cigar factories locked out.
| 8. Tho men who distributed boycott circu-
| lars referring to the Widow Landgraff's
| bakery were convicted at New York, before
Judge Barrett and sentenced to terms of i'm
prisonMent of from ten TO thirty days
| 25 Tho National Cigarinakers' union with
| drew from the knights of Labor.
| AUGUST.
10. The cigarmalSers Of New York, who
| had been on strike for some time, determined
| to resume work.
| 90. Tho eight Chicago Anarchists who were
on trial for the Haymarket riot and bomb
/ throwing were convicted, Spies. Schyab,